On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:21:32PM -0400, Edward Capriolo wrote: > I have been working on a project for a while. My goal was to design a > management system that would be a cross between Ensim/VServer Control > Daemon /and webmin. > 1) The concept is to put a web management interface ontop of a VServer > 2) manage all the resources into quotas Processor, Disk, and Memory, > IPAddreses, etc > 3) Give users access to above resources to create one or more virtual > servers without any administrator intervention > > The most difficult tasks were creating and managing IP addresses and > IPTables automatically. The VServer work was done by adding wrappers > around the shell commands. In the end, I had a tool that can do all > the work of creating a vserver including iptables from a web > interface. > > After I had most of those features working, I decided I wanted to go > after a multi server implementation :) > > My new goals are to add some features: > 1) Work on clusters of up to 16 servers with a shared metastore > 2) Create DRBD partitions and install vservers on them > 3) Integrate Linux HA for failover of VServers > 4) Create public template repositories much like all the vmware images out there > > The entire project is going to be open source. > > http://www.jointhegrid.com/jtgweb/ sounds great! will have to check that out also keep in contact with Daniel, maybe advanced integration between your project and util-vserver is worth some efford in the future ... best, Herbert > The 'working' V1 implementation is going to be frozen and put out on > SVN, while I work on the V2 multi-server version. I have noticed some > list activity about DRBD and OCF scripts so some people might be > interested. > > Thanks all